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Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Ten |
Full Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Ten |
Description | Includes descriptions of an explosion of a boat on the North River, New York literary Bohemians, boarding house living at 132 Bleecker Street, his freelance writing and drawing work, the death of writer Mort Thomson's young wife Anna, working on the publication 'Constellation,' visits to the Edwards family, a falling out with Fanny Fern over an article he wrote criticizing 'The New York Ledger,' a rumor that Fitz James O'Brien is the heir to an Irish baronetcy, and a change of landladies at his boarding house. |
Date Text | 1858 |
Subject | Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Publishers and publishing; Women |
MHM Subject | Art and Literature; Women |
Collection | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries |
Creator | Gunn, Thomas Butler |
Coverage | New York, New York |
Note | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
Type | Document |
Format | Text |
Language | Eng |
Scan Date | 2011-01-31 |
Rights | Copyright 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
Publisher | Missouri History Museum |
Collection Number | A0632 |
Institution | Missouri History Museum |
Title | Page 001 |
Full Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Ten: page one |
Description | Front cover. |
Subject | Gunn, Thomas Butler |
Collection | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries |
Creator | Gunn, Thomas Butler |
Type | Document |
Format | Text |
Language | Eng |
Scan Date | 2011-01-31 |
Rights | Copyright 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
Publisher | Missouri History Museum |
Collection Number | A0632 |
Institution | Missouri History Museum |
Fulltext | [front cover] |
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